Industrial Revolution

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manufacture of all-cotton goods. Hargreaves' machine used a patented roller and carriage system that made it possible to use finer and stronger yarns than ever before. Edmund Cartwright, became interested in applying mechanical power to hand looms. In 1784 he had a chance encounter with some gentlemen from Manchester. This gentleman observed that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired so many cotton mills would be erected and so much cotton spun that not enough hands could ever be found to weave it. During the second decade of the l9th Century when other textile workers rioted led by Ned Lud to break up stocking frames because they feared for their jobs and broke up more labor-saving machinery. These disturbances were known as Luddite riots and the men who took part in them were known as Luddites. These Luddites could not accept the fact that labor saving machinery had to be produced and would ultimately increase the demand for human labor, not lessen it.
The history of inventions in the textile industry illustrates how new machines improved...